Easter is the most important festival of the Christian calendar, and so it is unsuprising that most of England’s Pre-Reformation churches were adorned with artworks commemorating Christ’s passion and resurrection. Sadly, such was the zeal of the reformation that virtually none of these depictions remain, apart from fragments, mutilated, burnt or eaten away by rot and woodworm.
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